Politics

That Lonesome Whistle

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

  • Candice Delmas

As American as Trump

European analogies are everywhere, but Trump fits squarely in the homegrown tradition.

  • Cas Mudde

Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.

It is almost impossible to grasp how much Thomas Jefferson believed in progress.

  • Richard Kreitner

Trump and the End of Everything

Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn’t win.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

  • Alex de Waal

What We Owe Each Other

Egalitarianism requires not just redistribution but equal social standing.

  • Martin O’Neill

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The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

  • David Sehat

The Brazilian Coup’s Image Problem

New leaks prove the impeachment is intended to protect corrupt politicians.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Rights vs. Duties

In the age of human rights, the language of duties has withered.

  • Samuel Moyn

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

The Base

With Bernie Sanders’s campaign reeling, what’s next for progressive activists?

  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin

A Country for Old Men

Xenophobia, antipolitics, and the crisis of liberalism in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

  • Holly Case

What Is Education For?

Above all, preparing students for civic and political engagement.

  • Danielle Allen
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  • Carlos Fraenkel
  • Deborah Meier
  • Michel DeGraff
  • Debra Satz
  • Lelac Almagor
  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
  • Lucas Stanczyk
  • Rob Reich
  • Clint Smith

The Privatization of Hope

Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.

  • Ronald Aronson

Winners and Losers in Brazil’s Presidential Impeachment

Is there a political coup underway?

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Out with the Old, in with the Old

Lessons from Iceland’s brush with the Panama Papers.

  • Janet Elise Johnson

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Christopher F. Karpowitz

Matters of Choice

Scholar and retired Army officer Andrew Bacevich on the U.S. war for the Greater Middle East

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Stephen Kinzer

On Stone Mountain

Bill Clinton, white supremacy, and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

  • Christopher Petrella

Machinations of Wicked Men

Niall Ferguson’s authorized biography falsifies Henry Kissinger’s intellectual legacy.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

A Reading List for Radical Political Action

  • Derecka Purnell
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Why Spain Won’t Quit the Eurozone

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

  • Mark Weisbrot

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman
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